PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron warns that Iran is opposed to interfering in Lebanon after last week’s explosion that sparked a political crisis in the country.
In telephone conversations with Iranian President Hassan Rohani, Macron presses the “need for all the powers involved… to avoid any outdoor interference and the status quo of a government capable of handling the emergency,” the Elyseo said.
Iran exerts great influence in Lebanon through the Shia terrorist organization Hezbollah, which is heavily represented in the outgoing government and has an alliance with the faction of President Michel Aoun.
The explosion, which killed 171 people, was attributed to a huge reserve of ammonium nitrate that had been left to rot in the harbor for years despite repeated warnings.
Macron, who was the first world leader to stop in Beirut after the explosion, took the initiative to coordinate the foreign reaction and presided over a virtual aid convention this weekend that generated more than 250 million euros ($295 million) in promises.
Chancellor Gabi Ashkenazi will welcome his foreign counterpart, Nikos Dendias, on its scale in Israel, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
They will also talk about the tensions between Greece and Turkey over maritime energy rights, according to the Hebrew media.
The Foreign Ministry issued a preview of the day to help Greece amid tensions between Athens and Ankara over maritime rights over oil and gas, while Dendias tweeted that it was talking to Ashkenazi about “illegal Turkish actions” in the eastern Mediterranean.
The Health Ministry said a list of countries that Israelis can pass to will be published on Thursday without having to quarantine them on their way back to Israel.
PARIS – The controversial French comic Dieudonné has been banned in TikTok, says the video sharing app.
The doomed anti-Semite, who was also convicted of tolerating terrorism, had already been removed from YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
Facebook, which also owns Instagram, withdrew its account last week because it “made those who suffered the Holocaust laugh” and used “dehumanizing terms about Jews.”
Dieudonné, 54, has an unwavering clientele among some of France’s deficient immigrant suburbs.
The stand-up, whose full call is Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, sentenced to two years of prison for tax evasion and cash laundering last year.
He denounces the Zionist lobby, who he says controls the world, and says his right to freedom of expression has been violated.
He was convicted several times for hate speech, which lasted in November, when he fined 9,000 euros ($10,600) for anti-Semitic insults.
The French government has tried to close its programs, especially after popularizing a hand gesture known as “quenelle”, which has been criticized for sounding like a Nazi salute.
The French Tsar against Discrimination, Frédéric Potier, welcomed the TikTok resolution and turned to Twitter to urge the social network to adapt, asking, “What are you waiting for?”
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DAMASCUS, Syria – Syrian President Bashar Assad interrupted a speech he gave in parliament after suffering a brief drop in blood pressure, the Syrian presidency said.
The workplace says the speech was interrupted for “several minutes” due to a “slight” case of hypotension he was suffering from, after which he continued the speech normally.
The elections coincided with the worst economic crisis in Syria and a fall in the currency, which has left a greater part of the country’s population in poverty.
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Prime Minister Netanyahu said the government is “doing everything it can” to ensure that the new school year begins on September 1 as planned, amid considerations of reopening due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“This is the deadline and it hasn’t changed,” he said in assembly with the ministers of Education, Fitness and Finance.
ATLANTA – U.S. President Donald Trump is tweeting Congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene, following the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory that has been criticized for his racist comments, following his first Republican victory in Georgia.
Greene, an entrepreneur and political newcomer, beat neurosurgeon John Cowan in a first-round race Tuesday in the 14th district of the Georgia Congress, stretching from the outskirts of the Atlanta metro to the northwestern rural corner of the state.
“Congratulations to Republican star Marjorie Taylor Greene for a big victory in the Georgia Congressional primary against a very difficult and intelligent opponent,” Trump said on Twitter. “Marjorie is strong at everything and never gives up, a genuine WINNER!”
“You encouraged me to run and fight to save America and prevent socialism!” Greene responded to Trump’s tweet. “No one will fight more than me!” “
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2020
Greene has amassed tens of thousands of fans on social media, where she posts videos of herself speaking directly to the camera. These videos helped boost their popularity with their base, but also generated sentencing after the release of videos complaining of an “Islamic invasion” in government offices, claims black and Hispanic men are being held through “gangs and drug trafficking,” and a theory of anti-Semitic conspiracy that the billionaire philanthropist George SorosArray , who is Jewish, collaborated with the Nazis.
Greene is also part of an ongoing list of applicants who have voiced QAnon, a conspiracy theory focused on unfounded confidence that Trump is conducting a secret crusade opposed to enemies in the “deep state” and a network of child sex trafficking through satanic paedophiles. cannibals.
Greene will face Democrat Kevin Van Ausdal in November. Republican Tom Graves, who called for re-election, last won the seat with more than 76% of the vote in 2018.
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Devices with incendiary balloons introduced from the Gaza Strip have suffered 12 fires in southern Israel since the morning, according to Hebrew media.
Benny Gantz returned to his powers as defense minister after undergoing back surgery the day before his office.
Kakhol Lavan’s minister, Michael Biton, had replaced Gantz while undergoing the operation.
Hagit Peer, leader of the Naamat women’s group, criticized Sara Netanyahu for presenting herself as a “battered woman” for her sexual comments about her protests against her prime minister’s husband.
“Mrs. Netanyahu is a battered woman,” Peer told Channel 12. It is a depreciation of the concept and Mrs Netanyahu, who has visited women’s houses in the past, knows that. »
The Ministry of Defense announces the defeat of an Israeli security cyberattack and army companies.
A ministry said an organization called Lazarus, “an organization supported through a foreign country,” was behind the attack. It did not specify which country it was connected to, however, the reports indicated that the organization had ties to North Korea.
“Members of the organization used various piracy techniques, adding ‘social engineering’ and identity theft. They have built fake profiles on Linkedin, a social network that is basically used for task search in the high-tech sector,” he said.
The Ministry of Defense specifies which corporations were attacked.
“Cyberattacks were known in real time, and frustrated through the technical unit under the direction of the Director of Security for the Defense Establishment, Ministry of Defense, as well as cyberdefense systems contracted through the defense industries. No damage or interruption to your network was caused,” he said.
– Ronen Bergman (@ronenbergman) 12 August 2020
Sumner Redstone, who built a media empire from his family’s chain of drive-ins, died. He’s 97.
ViacomCBS Inc., which he led for decades, remembers Redstone for his “unparalleled pastime to win,” his intellectual interest, and his overall determination toward the company.
Redstone, who was Jewish, built the company through competitive acquisitions, but many titles that wore his call pointed to damaged ties to wives, actors, and executives. In several interviews, he said he would never die.
His participation in the National Amusements theatre channel, which controlled CBS Corp.et Viacom Inc. through voting shares, passed to his daughter Shari Redstone, who fought senior executives to merge the two entities that separated in 2006.
Sumner Redstone’s battles with his own circle of relatives were as dramatic as his corporate maneuvers. His son Brent Redstone once sued his father to break his media empire, then settled for a princely sum to give up his voting shares.
Redstone, a thin guy with a strong Boston accent, married and divorced twice, first to Phyllis Gloria Raphael, mother of her children Shari and Brent, and then to paula Fortunato teachers, a woguy 39 years her junior.
Under his leadership, Viacom has become one of the titans of the country’s media, featuring the pay-TV channels MTV and Comedy Central and the film studio Paramount Pictures. Redstone has told the interviewers that “content is king.”
And he’s right. Despite viacom’s drop in television ratings, his gigantic stakes in Viacom and CBS led Forbes magazine to estimate its net worth at $4.6 billion.
In addition to being ruthless, Redstone was known for his damn determination. In 1979, he survived a fireplace at Boston’s Copley Plaza hotel by grabbing the windowsill of a third-floor window with his right arm still inside. He suffered third-degree burns on part of his body, his right wrist was almost cut off and he was told he would never walk again. But he nevertheless recovered and even played tennis by tying his racket to his wrist.
“I intend to do it forever!” told Upstart Business Journal in 2009.
Born in 1923 in Boston, Redstone is the eldest son of Michael and Belle Rothstein, who replaced redstone’s surname.
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Sara Netanyahu says she has been subjected to “sexual violence” through critics of the prime minister and protesters, while calling herself and her young people “beaten.”
In a rare interview with the Twelfth Channel, the Prime Minister’s wife said, “I am a battered woman and my children are beaten,” referring to the motion of developing protest calling for the resignation of Israel’s oldest leader, recently prosecuted for corruption. , fraud and abuse of trust.
“I feel like I’ve been sexually abused,” she says. “Apart from the horrible march of balloons [in the form of male sex organs] and the message [on social media] to rape me, that I used particular and rude language.”
“I opposed that, it was that he apologized,” says Sara Netanyahu. “Dana Weiss is not behaving like a journalist yet as a unilateral political figure … Dana Weiss hurts me every day. His beatings are a million times worse than what my son did.
PARIS – French police are investigating an obvious anti-Semitic attack on a 29-year-old man at a construction site in northeast Paris.
An organization that tracks anti-Semitic violence and hate speech in France, the BNVAC, has called for an investigation and denounced it as the newest in a series of scattered acts against Jews.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation into possible violent theft charges motivated by devout motives.
The guy was treated for injuries to the face, throat and legs, according to BNVCA.
French police recorded 687 anti-Semitic acts last year, from vandalism to threats of physical attack, 27% more than last year. Reports of racist and anti-Muslim acts have also increased.
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Several settlers piled up and blocked a crossroads this morning on the outskirts of Jiit, a Palestinian village near Nablus in the West Bank, before setting the camps on fire, causing “considerable damage,” says yesh Din rights organization.
Shalabi Abu Hmeid, resident of Jiit, who coordinates a local news site, you;; s The Times of Israel, of which it is still known whether the settlers were guilty of the box flame.
The crossing, along with Jiit himself, is a 10-minute drive from Yitzhar, an open-air which there were clashes between border police and settlers this morning, demolishing illegal structures. A border police officer was slightly injured in the clashes.
According to B’Tselem, another human rights group, settlers also threw stones at Palestinians in the area, one of whom was taken to hospital for treatment. It is not known if Yitzhar’s settlers were worried about the box fire.
– Aaron Boxerman
President Reuven Rivlin visits the Israel Museum in Jerusalem while the Dead Sea Scrolls are re-exhibited, after being placed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The museum will reopen on Thursday.
“The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves of Qumr’n caused us wonderful emotion during the first decade of the State of Israel. It was a greeting from our predecessors, the Jews who lived in this country more than two thousand years ago,” Rivlin said. , according to one in your office.
He adds: “At times like this, we crave works of art and archaeology in this special museum, and we have a duty to our cultural establishments, which are the non-secular foundations of the Jewish and democratic state of Israel.”
– Reuven Rivlin (@PresidentRuvi) 12 August 2020
Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman confronted Prime Minister Netanyahu in an assembly of his ultra-Orthodox party of Unified Torah Judaism ahead of today’s vote on a bill to delay the deadline to approve the state budget, Walla reports.
Although lawmakers from the Likud coalition parties, Kakhol lavan and Shas voted in favour of the proposal, which may delay the option of new elections, some UJT MPs objected.
According to the report, Litzman is furious that the dispute between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz over the budget delays the approval of the ieshivá’s investment and suggests that the minister is guilty of the impasse.
“There can’t be a scenario where we say that’s it. If there is a possibility that [the yeshiva budget] will work, it is only by one vote against the law. Bibi [Netanyahu] will be afraid,” he added. Litzman said.
UTJ No. 2 Moshe Gafni reportedly agreed, saying it was obligatory to “demonstrate,” while others called for a vote on the bill, and Deputy UriManever warned that it might appear that the party would not be attending the elections.
Tehran, Iran: Iran’s president and foreign minister are attacking a revised U.S. proposal that would indefinitely widen a UN arms embargo opposed to Iran, the latest in the Trump administration’s policy of tension against Iran.
The United States circulated the revised draft at the United Nations on Tuesday, seeking more from the 15-member Security Council, where Russia and China, who oppose the veto, expressed strong opposition. The revised draft, which removed some provisions from the previous edition that diplomats say went beyond extending the arms embargo, could be put to a vote on Friday.
But with Russia and China heavily criticizing the U.S. effort to widen the arms embargo indefinitely, either will most likely use their veto force even if the bill gets at least nine “yes” votes on the board, which is highly unlikely.
America’s drive to make the arms embargo permanent follows President Donald Trump’s 2018 withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal between the world’s leading powers and Tehran, aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Tehran has insisted that it is not looking to produce a nuclear bomb.
The nuclear agreement, approved through the Security Council, a provision that lifts the arms embargo opposed to Iran on October 18.
Rohani criticized the revised draft and said “its initiators will be guilty of the consequences” if the Security Council adopts the new resolution. It doesn’t do what Iran could do.
Zarif says the U.S. draft is a “very illegal resolution” and uses Security Council mechanisms to destroy the Security Council. “
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The crownvirus tsar, Ronni Gamzu, travels to Jerusalem, which has the maximum number of active COVID-19 infections from any city in Israel.
“You manage to moderate it, but the morbidity remains high,” Gamzu said in an assembly with Mayor Moshe Lion and other city officials, according to Channel 12. “Any other city in the world with morbidity rates like that would already be blocked [down].”
Gamzu says the density of some neighborhoods, “especially in Arab and ultra-Orthodox communities,” makes it more difficult to manage the epidemic in the capital.
He also comments on the recent open-air protests against Prime Minister Netanyahu in his official apartment in Jerusalem, where thousands of people demonstrated.
“There are many demanding situations in the city, adding the weight of protests that also contribute to the spread of the virus,” Gamzu says.
Israel Start-Up Nation announces that Canadian Michael Woods will be on the team next season with four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome.
Woods, 33, who won a bronze medal at the 2018 world championships, signed a three-year contract, according to the team.
“World-class climber Michael Woods will be on israel’s Start-Up Nation next season in Chris Froome’s super-national,” says Start-Up Nation.
“The Canadian will also lead the team in some of the biggest races and vintages,” he adds.
Tour level winners Daryl Impey and Patrick Bevan, as well as Norwegian driver Carl Fredrik Hagen were also signed through the team that promoted the most sensible of the World Tour.
Froome will continue to compete for Ineos this season and is competing in the Criterium du Dauphine, a key Tour de France preparation race that today.
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Tehran, Iran – Iran’s hardliners in parliament are voting against President Hassan Rohani’s candidate for trade minister in the first clash between rival camps since space returned to the paintings in May despite fighting to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
According to the parliament’s website, lawmakers reject hossein Modares Khiabani’s appointment as Minister of Trade and Industry.
Parliament President Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the 140 votes to 104 opposed the nominee. The consultation involved 254 legislators and 10 abstained. The parliament has 290 seats.
The vote marks the first serious confrontation between the newly elected chamber, ruled by the Conservatives and Rouhani’s bloc of moderate supporters. Under the law, Rohani is expected to provide new applicants to his closet within the next 3 months.
In May, Rohani fired then-minister of trade and industry, Reza Rahmani, amid an unprecedented economic recession amid intense tension in the United States after President Donald Trump withdrew Iran’s nuclear force with global forces and re-imposed opposing sanctions on the country. Khiabani, 52, had been acting industry minister.
Iran is grappling with the largest and deadly coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, with more than 333,000 cases shown and at least 18988 deaths.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook reports advances in capturing abusive content on the platform because it relies more on automated systems than the pandemic.
The main social network publishes its most recent implementation report by pronouncing updated policies to ban certain types of “implicit hate speech,” such as the black face and “stereotypes about the Jews of the world.”
“Despite having an effect on COVID-19, the innovations of our generation have allowed us to act on more content in some areas,” the report says.
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Fifty-three lawmakers oppose the bill, with 37 in favor.
In the plenary vote, Netanyahu called opposition leader Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party, which according to the bill, was a “dictator.”
“The position in the world where laws like these are passed are the darkest dictatorships like Iran and North Korea,” the prime minister said.
Netanyahu also mocks Lapid for his lack of a high school or a school title, suggesting that this makes the opposition leader unworthy to be prime minister, and claims that Yesh Atid’s vanquished father, Tommy Lapid, opposed a similar bill when he minister of justice.
“We can see the sweat from here, you know, and you’re afraid to end up in jail,” Lapid told Netanyahu. “You’re a dad who told you not to touch the money. If you’d heard it, you wouldn’t have had three cases of criminals.”
He also quotes Netanyahu as saying that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was unable to serve as prime minister while under investigation for corruption.